Quotes About Offense

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

Administrator McCarthy committed perjury and made several false statements at multiple congressional hearings and as a result, is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors - an impeachable offense.

When they widened the lane to prevent me from staying so close to the basket that just created more opportunity for me to pass the ball around.

I'm working on everything, especially staying balanced when I shoot the ball. That's the biggest thing, as well as taking good shots within the offense.

When I was playing, it was me playing both ends of the floor, playing offense, playing defense and I gave the ball up with assists. It wasn't like me doing one thing, scoring 25 and having three assists and one steal.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

Sometimes you are going to have to games where you are going to have to manufacture runs, stealing. Particularly when you face real good pitching.

I can bring a lot. I play both sides of the ball. I defend. I have an offensive game. I rebound the ball. I get steals a lot.

Rondo is great with the steals, also on offense with the passing and court vision.

The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

One can go on saying for years that one doesn't listen to gossip, that the absent cannot defend themselves from slander, etc., etc.; but, after all, isn't the provocation of so much gossip an offense in itself?

Can a woodchuck chuck wood? Because the question is, "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if," so you haven't established or proved without any shadow of a doubt that a woodchuck could chuck wood. Frankly, I believe that they chew wood. I don't think they can chuck wood at all! I take offense to the whole chucking question.

We need the ball even to defend; that's our objective: having the ball and having it as far as possible from our goal as possible.

My objective with men at 2nd and 3rd is to get one quality pitch to drive them in. If it's not available, I'm going to go to first base. I won't make any apologies about that.

There was the old myth of divine intervention. You blasphemed, and a lightning bolt struck you. That was a little steep too. If punishment is at all proportionate to the offense, then power becomes watered. The only way you generate the proper attitude of awe and obedience is through immense and disproportionate power.

If punishment is at all proportionate to the offense, then power becomes watered. The only way you generate the proper attitude of awe and obedience is through immense and disproportionate power.

Contrition for an offence must precede the pardon of an offence.

Sai bene quanto il fuoco sia facile a offendersi.

Ils sont tous ivres morts dice de Foxâ a bassa voce, stringendomi il braccio. Je commence à avoir peur. Allora io gli dico: Non mostrare di aver paura, per l'amor di Dio! Se si accorgono che hai paura, sono capaci di offendersi. Non sono cattivi: ma quando hanno bevuto, diventano come bambini. Non sono cattivi, lo so, dice de Foxâ son come bambini. Ma io ho paura dei bambini.

She did not mind if he observed her hands. She intended to scorn him. Her heavy arm lay negligently on the table. Her mouth was closed as if she were offended, and she kept her face slightly averted.

A nice row there'd be in heaven if Aldebaran caught Sirius by the tail and said, Look here, you're not to look so green, you damm dog-star! It's an offense against star-regulations.

but we know in the South that the real purpose of manners is to make life easier for everyone, easier both to keep to oneself and to avoid the uneasy commerce of offense and even insult. Either one shakes hands with someone or one ignores him or one kills him. What else is there?